And I haven't told you how she is, how we are, or how incredibly blessed we are:

Everything is better than we prayed for. Everything seems too good to be true. Everything is what we thought we could only dream about. Marla and her birth mom..."MeMar" are ahhhhmazing.

I hate that I have missed so much. I know I already can't remember it all. It just keeps coming over and over ....good, better, best!

Life has been crazy, as usual. Back to work quickly after ICPC and home for a week. Wrestling season for B and the holidays. A wonderful flow of family and friends coming to visit. Our taxes looming over me like a black cloud that need to get done. Like tomorrow. Laundry to fold. Extra room to clean out. Photos to organize. Photos to print. Projects with the daycare kids. Dog hair to vacuum. And the worst....dinner to cook.

I promise. I pinky swear. I will fill you in with some of our story. I love sharing it!!!

But, here are three pics to get you by.

Our first "official" family picture. TPR were signed a few hours before this and we took our "kids" (still feels strange to say kidS) to see Santa at the museum.

Thanks for those of you who stuck around! Please leave a quick comment to tell me you if you are still here!

Oh, congratulations to you and your family--your new baby girl is beautiful! So happy to hear the news. You and I have never met, but my husband and I are in the process (a very loooong process!) of adopting our first daughter from China and I love to read the blogs of fellow adoptive families as we are waiting. Found you via the interviews via Production, not Reproduction. Anyway, I would love to continue following your journey through your blog. Congratulations again!!!